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...less pessimistic. "The fact that the crimes have decreased over the past few months is positive," he says quietly. He confirms that the armed forces have asked the church to send priests to visit military command posts and give talks on human rights to soldiers and officers. "The origin of the revolution has its roots in tremendous social injustice. The violence will not disappear until that injustice is reduced." Monsignor Rivera y Damas does not possess the charisma of Monsignor Romero, but beneath his affable air and sleepy eyes, he is extremely shrewd. Many say that he has managed...
...that seems like a peculiar notion, but one has to read the proposed ordinance to see just how peculiar it is. The city council proposed banning "discrimination... based on race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, including...
...American life. And second, the air is filled with accusations of racism, or sexism, or ageism, or some other - "-ism," and this poisons the atmosphere. Affirmative action makes that kind of accusation institutional and routine. A third objection I have is that affirmative action has been widened from its origin in the Civil Rights Act to include groups like women. Hispanics, and others who haven't suffered in any way comparable to Blacks. Blacks, I think, really are a special case. That there are other injustices to other groups in society is undoubtedly true, but they are nothing like...
...agency's traditionally adamant support for affirmative action approaches to discrimination and denial of equal protection. Established by the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the Commission serves primarily to investigate and study alleged civil rights violations on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, handicap, or national origin and to monitor and evaluate Federal laws and policies on civil rights. Although the Commission does not have powers of enforcement, it was instrumental in shaping federal attitudes toward discrimination. It also evaluates and criticizes federal programs and recommends changes to Congress and the President. In such a capacity, the Commission...
Contemporary affirmative action programs have long been based on looking back to the historical process of American institutionalized racism and sexism, which are known as "problem-remedy" solutions. In 1981 the Civil Rights Commission defined affirmative action as "active efforts that take race, sex, and national origin into account for the purpose of remedying discrimination." The underlying rationale for affirmative action is that discrimination can be overcome only by an explicit consideration of an individual's background. But such a system, charge critics of affirmative action, only constitute another form of racism or "reverse discrimination...